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The $20,000 American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, and no touchscreen

theverge.com

The rather extreme omission of any kind of media system in the car is jarring, but it, too, has secondary benefits.

“Seventy percent of repeat warranty claims are based on infotainment currently because there’s so much tech in the car that it’s created a very unstable environment in the vehicle,” Snyder says.

Eliminating infotainment, the theory goes, necessarily boosts reliability. And reliability will be key because Slate is taking DIY to new extremes on the maintenance front, too.

Man escapes African desert doom, turns wrecked car into DIY motorcycle

nydailynews.com

He was told the area was restricted and he couldn’t go through. Ignoring the request, he instead drove off at top speed into the rocky terrain of the restricted area, making sure the military officials weren’t following him, according to the site.

Leray told the UK’s Sunday Times that he had travelled around Africa about 10 times so knew the region well. But before long, his he crashed the car into a rock, rendering it unable to drive.

So… genius, or not?

I Love ‘Severance.’ Now End It.

nytimes.com

The devoted fan (including this one) is left with many unanswered questions, as well as that greatest of adult freedoms: the space to think through multiple meanings for ourselves, with no answers imposed on us by the storytellers.

This is as it should be. And this is how it should conclude.

Agree, on this and many other instances. We need more ambivalence and opportunity for self-thought.

AI is not as effective as it might appear

gamesradar.com

“Right now, most of the popular AIs are based on large language models,” AI Limit producer Yang Bin tells GamesRadar+ in an email interview. “Such tools can produce an imitation of the average value of a large amount of data. Our speculation is that within a short period of time, it won’t be able to create works that surpass the average level of its training samples. We hope to explore works that are more creative. Therefore, it doesn’t seem to have fundamental benefits for now.”